NKOTBs: Meet 2020-21’s new students!
There are 16 new students on the high school campus this year. Learn about their hobbies and interests.
A deeper look into student sleep schedules
“I usually wake up around 10 minutes before class.” That’s junior Dylan Margolis. It’s 8:10 a.m. when he opens his eyes to the sound of his phone playing “By the Seaside.” Rolling out of the lower bunk, Margolis sleepily slips…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Maddie Woo, ’20, enjoys the Associated Student Government at University of San Diego
Maddie Woo, ’20, attends the University of San Diego. She is double majoring in business and computer science. Q: What classes are you taking this semester? A: I’m taking Computer Science 110, which is the first computer science class. I…
Students and faculty share their resolutions for 2021
As the new year commences, Country Day students and faculty celebrated by sharing their goals and resolutions for 2021. Shivom Sharma In addition to schoolwork, sophomore Shivom Sharma trades stocks every day from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sharma trades…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Jason Li, ’20, enjoys hiking while attending online classes at University of Tsinghua in Beijing, China from US
Jason Li, ’20, attends online classes at the University of Tsinghua in Beijing, China, while living in the U.S. and is majoring in architecture. Q: Why did you choose your college and major? A: I chose my college because it…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Héloïse Schep, ’20, enjoys political science classes in person at Amherst
Héloïse Schep attends Amherst College in Massachusetts. She hasn’t declared a major, but she’s considering political science or Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought, or LJST, an Amherst-specific major. Q: Why did you decide to return to campus? A: I felt…
Mapping group club maps areas hit by natural disasters
History teacher Bill Crabb’s Mapping Group club focuses on using open source tools to help map different areas around the world. Junior Arijit Trivedi has mapped an entire village in the Philippines that was hit by a typhoon. His job…
CLASS OF 2021: Senior Olivia Chilelli is Country Day’s art prodigy winning congressional art competition
From sketching anime-style drawings in the third grade to selling her award-winning gouache painting for $250, senior Olivia Chilelli is Country Day’s art prodigy as she continues to pursue her artistic dreams. Chilelli first took art seriously when she was…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Larkin Barnard-Bahn, ’20, enjoys working on her school newspaper, The Student Life
Larkin Barnard-Bahn, ’20, is a freshman at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is fully online due to the pandemic and is double minoring in data science and Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Q: What college are…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Aaron Graves, ’20, majoring in political science at Gonzaga University
College freshman Aaron Graves, ’20, is pursuing a political science major at Gonzaga University in Washington State. Q: How have you been doing at Gonzaga University? A: Well, it’s been definitely a step up from high school to here, but…